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A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Henley on Thames. You may be able to find further references to Henley on Thames in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Henley | railway station | Bartholomew |
| HENLEY | a sub-district and a district | Imperial |
| HENLEY-ON-THAMES | a town and a parish | Imperial |
| Henley (or Southern) Division | parliamentary division | Bartholomew |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Henley on Thames.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Emma Green | hamlet | Bartholomew |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Henley on Thames within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
|---|---|---|
| Karl Moritz | Chapter 10: Windsor to Oxford | 5 |
| William Camden | Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire | 4 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 4, Part 3: Berkshire and Buckinghamshire | 3 |
| William Gilpin | Bristol to London | 2 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire | 1 |
| Paul Hentzner | A tour to Cambridge, Oxford and Windsor | 1 |
| Arthur Young | 1776 Tour of South Wales and South Midlands | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Badgemore | 0 | 1 |
| Harpsden | 0 | 2 |
| Remenham | 0 | 2 |
| Bolney | 0 | 2 |
| Binfield | 0 | 2 |
| Shiplake | 0 | 2 |
| Rotherfield Greys | 1 | 3 |
| Assendon | 0 | 2 |
| Fawley | 1 | 2 |
| Wargrave | 0 | 3 |
| Bix | 0 | 2 |
| Rotherfield Peppard | 0 | 2 |
| Dunsden | 0 | 1 |
| Sonning Eye | 0 | 2 |
| Highmoor | 0 | 2 |
| Hurley | 1 | 2 |
| Medmenham | 0 | 2 |
| Hambleden | 0 | 2 |
| Kiln Green | 0 | 2 |
| Twyford | 5 | 2 |